-- This document is intended for my blog, but I thought that I'd share it here first, just in case there are comments/suggestions/questions, etc. Including the code, it is 3000 words. It's trivial for

I was recommended to come here, by some knowledgeable folks on a Filemaker Pro forum. So, I'm using some older versions in an active filemaker solution (FMPA 13, 14, 15), and need to enhance some secu

I'm wondering if it's possible to set accelerator keys to access displayed buttons from the keyboard, instead of having to use the mouse. For ex: buttons {"Action", "Reaction"} where hitting "A" on th

I seem to be wasting a lot of time on something that may already exist... I'm trying to find a way to add/subtract paths to files. Like, I have a path from / and I want to subtract it from the path to

It looks like System Events has problems with big XML files... When I try tell application "System Events" return XML elements of contents of XML file XMLfile end tell of a small xml file, I get all t

If there is an Applescript way to open a specific file at a given time that does not involve Calendar, I'm all for it, but right now I'm trying to focus on Calendar because that's where I manage all m

Thanks for this handy script, Shane. I started a new topic to help others find it. Best Regards, Jim Underwood aka JMichaelTX From: Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 12:3

Can't get or set list, column or icon view properties: tell application id "com.apple.finder" -- Finder get properties of Finder preferences (* comment out next line to see all properties *) get icon

I'm slowly trying to move away from Finder but I have problems finding equivalents for trivial things that I'm doing, like: tell application "Finder" to set default_location to (target of front window

Hi everyone! I want to create a service in Omnifocus to get something done. I usually create a script (.scpt), copy it and paste into the action "Run AppleScript" of Automator, and its ok. But now I w

I'm a very occasional user of AppleScript, so I'm not all that up on how to do things. I have failed to find something by search, so here's my question. My application allows users to create custom ke

I'm finding that depending on the tell block in which it is launched, a "display dialog" will request the user to turn to that app to be reacted too. What is the best way to have "application neutral"

G’day scripters. I hope this is the last missing piece in my app. With using GraphicConverter, I need to use ‘using terms from’, but the code is ‘locked’ into using the text 'GraphicConverter 10'. If

Is there a place that describes what System Events is, how it works, why it is necessary for some sorts of scripting, etc.? Jean-Christophe

G’day all Thanks to all of you who responded. Very useful information to be stored in my old brain. I bit the bullet and rang Digital Pacific, my web hosts. Apparently, cURL can only address files emb

I'm not finding the scripting references for MSO on MS site. Would anybody have links? Jean-Christophe

Greetings to all! We have drafted the first rough draft of the AppleScript Wiki , a great feature provided by groups.io. The Wiki doesn't even have an outline yet, but I wanted to invite each and ever

G’day scripters I want to read a remote .txt file using cURL, and save the result to a variable, NOT a file. If necessary, I want to add to that variable, and write it back to the remote file. Just ca

G’day scripters. Several days ago I posted here, and also in the Apple forums, that in High Sierra, and after the second last Sierra Security update, zipped disk image files no longer download and aut

Here is what I came up with, after many hours of testing why I had inconsistent behavior. It took me a long while to find the 2 issues I mention in my comments and find workarounds. on ActivateFullScr